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One of the important components of the role of the APRN is to influence public policy and to interface with law makers and elected officials in the design and implementation of rules and regulations impacting the health of a nation

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1. One of the important components of the role of the APRN is to influence public policy and to interface with law makers and elected officials in the design and implementation of rules and regulations impacting the health of a nation. Toward that end, how might you develop guidelines for a public policy brief on a current health issue?
2. As the program director for an APRN doctoral program of study, you are asked to develop the syllabus for a course on population and global health. Develop the course description, objectives, and weekly topical outline for a course titled “Current and Emerging Trends in Population-Based Global Health.”
3. Obtain a copy of the Tarimo (1991) Priority Chart (see the reference list). Break into groups and select six or seven community issues or concerns and rank these using the tool. What did your group agree about? Disagree about? In what ways would your group consider modifying the tool?
4. Consider a community known to you. You wish to take initial steps to build a partnership with the community. What data and information should you analyze and consider before you contact community leaders/members/ organizations? Which area leaders/members/organizations would you contact initially, to introduce the idea of a partnership?
5. a) Describe how you will incorporate this change into practice. b) Select one vulnerable group identified in Exercise 6.2 and identify an outcome for improvement. Design an interventional study that incorporates the use of technology to improve that outcome.

6) You are working in a community hospital in a small town in Tennessee. The town’s population is 23,000. There were six new cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever diagnosed in the past year.

• Calculate the incidence of Rocky Mountain spotted fever per 1,000 and per 100,000.

7. Identify two or three population-based and health-related interventions at your institution or in your community. Determine whether the approach has been successful in changing outcomes and/or reducing health-related costs. Identify the aggregate population and what parameters were used in this intervention. Identify any changes in policy associated with these interventions.
8. PolitiFact is a website created by the St. Petersburg Times (Now the Tampa Bay Times ) and a winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize (www.politifact.com). It was created to help people find the truth in American politics. Reporters and editors from the newspaper check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists, and interest groups and rate them on a Truth-O-Meter . Find a statement that is being circulated about the ACA, and then check the Truth-OMeter to determine the veracity of the statement.
9. a) Define postmodernism and give examples of how postmodernist thinking has manifested itself throughout the history of psychology. b) Describe the relevance of Wittgenstein’s concept of language games to postmodernism.

10) a) Summarize the arguments for and against the PsyD degree. b) Support or refute Kimble’s contention that contemporary psychology consists of at least two incommensurable cultures.

11) a) Discuss the steps taken by the APA through the years to reduce the tension between pure, scientific psychology and applied psychology. b) Discuss some of the conflicts between clinical psychologists and psychiatrists?

12) a) Summarize the history of the controversy concerning psychology as a pure, scientific discipline as opposed to an applied discipline. b) What was the primary function of clinical psychologists before World War II? After World War II?